@yeaookk@PaddyCTO@IOHK_Charles@IOGroup To be fair I know there are on chain txs on other chains but I still don't think there has been any Crypto that has broken through and found a way or reason to bring non crypto folks to crypto. It is a bear market across crypto.
@elonmusk Was the revolutionary war not political violence? Isn't the right to bear arms at least in part to allow citizens to fight back against a tyrannical government. Now is political violence acceptable in today's America, NO. But there are situations where it becomes necessary.
@ConservDwall11@MarioNawfal There seems to be reports of a flight attendant getting it after coming in contact with one cruise ship passengers. If that is the case it seems like it is a little more transmissible than close, prolonged contact examples cited.
@SenWarren I get the desire to simplify things but I don't think the ultra rich own many dollars. They own many other assets that have high dollar values but that is a big difference and one of the biggest issues to a wealth tax.
Since you asked…
First, I appreciate you being here long term. That really matters. The @stuff_io / @book_io community has been awesome. I love you guys. Seriously.
Here’s what’s actually happening behind the scenes:
We are building media infrastructure (not a meme token). Real infrastructure is slower, more difficult, and less flashy in bear cycles.
In the last five years we have:
• Deployed across 6 blockchains
• Released 1,000+ projects
• Worked with hundreds of creators across books, music, film, and digital media
• Rebuilt tokenomics toward a product-driven consumption model
We’re in late-stage discussions on a very large enterprise initiative - the biggest thing we have ever done by several orders of magnitude. NDAs are real, so we can’t announce details yet. I know that’s frustrating. But it’s significant. As soon as we can share we will.
Most Web3 projects don’t have a consumable product that attracts liquidity from outside crypto. We do. But onboarding enterprises and mainstream users takes time and education.
For me personally I have been thinking of how we can get back to the basics and make things easier for people - first principles type stuff. How can we do this 10x more efficiently, what assumption from the past should we keep and what should we throw out.
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About $STUFF:
I don’t talk much about the token because I never want anyone to think we’re trying to pump and dump. I share the frustration around the chart. It’s not unique to us and in many ways mirrors what Cardano experienced last year. No one enjoys seeing yearly lows. If ADA were trading at $4, we’d be in a very different position.
The silver lining is that many great companies are built in bear markets. I personally embrace that environment. It creates discipline, filters out noise, and gives builders room to execute. I also don’t mind proving haters wrong. There’s a Rockefeller quote I’ve always appreciated: the way to make money is to buy when there’s blood in the streets. From my perspective, periods like this are opportunity windows.
I won’t restate every utility here since the white paper covers it in depth, but at a high level:
• $STUFF will power our Layer 2 for media transactions
• It will power our marketplace and secondary store, both currently in development
• It will drive the Consume-to-Earn mechanism
• We are also preparing to bridge it to another chain (possibly two in discussion)
This is real infrastructure, not a narrative experiment.
Internally we joke that if we only cared about getting rich fast, we’d launch a meme token, promise massive returns, pump it, and disappear like many have done before. But that’s not who we are. We are building something meant to last. We believe the model is genuinely good for both creators and consumers. This is mission driven, not a shortcut to quick money.
We are not chasing meme cycles. We are not here to pump bags. We do not promise instant doubles or 1000x moves in a week.
What most Web3 projects lack is what we do have: a real consumable product. Digital media brings in real users from outside the crypto bubble. As those users come in, liquidity follows. That process takes time. It also requires significant education and onboarding work, especially at the enterprise level.
We are building patiently, through market cycles, with real products and real adoption as the focus.
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About AI:
We have been in AI from the beginning. Before ChatGPT was publicly released, we were already using AI in the summer of 2022 to generate and sell book covers. AI has not been a trend we jumped on. It has been embedded in our company since the earliest days. We have dedicated AI engineers on the team, and these tools have been part of how we build for years.
Very early on we recognized that AI would dramatically expand the number of creators capable of producing meaningful work. Entire industries such as books, music, and film are being reshaped in real time. When creation becomes easier and more accessible, the bottleneck shifts from production to distribution, audience building, and monetization. We positioned ourselves to serve that shift. Our goal is to be the marketplace where this new wave of creators can connect directly with fans and sell their work. That evolution is already underway and still accelerating.
At the same time, we are aggressively pushing into agentic AI programming to fundamentally change how we operate. I am deeply focused on rethinking how we run the team, write and ship code, manage projects, and structure the entire production pipeline. We are designing workflows that are far more agent driven, while still carefully determining the right level of human oversight. The result is a level of speed that is difficult to overstate.
Some people are unsettled by this acceleration. I see it as a massive advantage. We already have an exceptional, highly creative, deeply technical team. AI does not replace that talent. It amplifies it. What used to take months now takes days. What used to take weeks now takes hours. That changes everything about how fast we can build.
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If you’re looking for reassurance, just know we’re still here and actively building. We’ve been doing this every day for nearly five years. The opportunities in front of us is massive, and the timing of agentic development has allowed us to keep pace with the scale of the enterprise deals we’re working on. These are huge, meaningful initiatives with real upside, designed to bring in lots of new users and deeper liquidity through product sales and onboarding to blockchain infrastructure.
We’re not here to pump tokens or promise unrealistic returns. Our focus is building something durable. We are expanding enterprise distribution, accelerating development with AI, and increasing real token utility across the platform. Those fundamentals are what drive long term value.
We’re still here. Still building. Five years in.
If you’d like a deeper update, join us tomorrow for the Wednesday Wrap Up: https://t.co/FYX6zoPsz9.
@GraceAl38236563@greendragonhq There are valid points to be made but this graph is not one of them. It presents that 2020s crazy increase in deficit was due to Trump's tax cut instead of I don't know COVID-19. Presenting things in obviously biased ways hurts arguments.
In defense of our Republic, the Supreme Court struck down using emergency powers to enact taxes.
This ruling will also prevent a future President such as AOC from using emergency powers to enact socialism.
@nickshirleyy This video actually made me have more faith in California elections. It brings up some processes that can be improved upon but for the PO boxes and the 125 year olds, they seem like eligible voters but the registration form should have more logic built in.
@travisakers Trump statement is not accurate but your statement isn't entirely accurate. Yes all those countries have some form of mail in ballots. But a smaller number of those countries have no excuse requirements. And of those I believe you have to opt in to mail in ballots.